C.V.
2025- Hebridean Dreams - Work In Progress
An elegiac multidisciplinary project: book, film & installation.
Filmography
2024 Tim Stead: Magician With Wood - Self-shooting Writer/Producer/Director/Editor
Feature documentary about innovative wood sculptor and furniture designer Tim Stead. Winner of 5 festival awards, nominated for another 4, screened in 17 international film festivals and over 30 Q&A screenings across the UK.
2022 Stravaig - Self-shooting Writer/Producer/Director/Editor
25’ poetic film for Glasgow School of Art, Belfast School of Art and Ulster University. Winner of Best Experimental Film, Athens Art Film Festival and semi-finalist for Best Experimental Film, San Francisco Arthouse Film Festival. Screened at Hebrides International Film Festival.
2014- Digital Stories
Creating social media, legacy, interpretation and promotional videos for artists, charities, organisations and businesses.
2022 Return to Uist - Self-shooting Producer/Director
Pilot and inserts for a 4 x ½ hour series for Salamanda Media and BBC Scotland.
2021 Maorach: Hebridean Shellfish - Self-shooting Writer/Producer/Director/Editor
1 hour documentary for BBC Alba & Screen Scotland, nominated for 2 awards at the Celtic Media Festival.
2021 Eye Of The Storm - Executive Producer
Anthony Baxter’s BAFTA Scotland winning documentary about landscape painter James Morrison for BBC Scotland, BBC2 and Screen Scotland.
2020 The Scottish Island That Won The Lottery - Self-shooting Producer/Director
Scenes for 1 hour documentary for Channel 4, Firecrest Films & Specky Productions.
2020 Flint - Producer
Anthony Baxter and Montrose Pictures feature documentary with Alec Baldwin for BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland about the water poisoning in Michigan, US.
2019 The Highland Cattle of Ardbhan - Self-shooting Writer/Producer/Director/Editor
75’ Hebridean Western for BBC Alba, nominated for Celtic Media Festival award.
2018 ‘San Fhuil/It’s In The Blood - Self-shooting Writer/Producer/Director/Editor
3 x 1 hour series/1 x 100’ documentary for BBC Alba about crofting life on South Uist. Screened at international festivals and broadcast in 7 European countries.
2018 The Power of Yoik - Self-shooting Writer/Producer/Director
1 hour award-winning documentary about a Sami reindeer herder protecting her heritage through yoiking, for BBC Alba, Sami Film, YLE, NRK, SVT, DR.
2017 Paha Polisi (Bad Cop) - Screenwriter and Co-Producer
Nordic feature documentary about police corruption.
2014 An Dotair Mor (The Big Doctor) - Screenwriter and Producer
1 hour documentary for BBC Alba about a legendary island doctor.
2014 Emergency Call: A Murder Mystery - Screenwriter and Producer
Feature documentary about the largest unsolved murder-mystery in Finland for YLE, SVT & ARTE. Premiered in IDFA’s Masters Series and winner of the Finnish State Film Prize.
2012 The Commissioner - Screenwriter & Co-Producer
1 hour documentary for YLE & SVT about the European debt crisis with Olli Rehn, the EC Commissioner for Finance & Economics.
2010 In The Shadow Of Doubt - Screenwriter & Co-Producer
Feature documentary about a Presidential Aide accused of aggravated espionage for YLE, winner of the Finnish State Film Prize.
2005 Game Over - Supervising Editor
Nordic feature film.
2005 Multimedia Installations - Screenwriter
Animated and interactive exhibits for the Eden Project, RoboThespian and Engineered Arts, Cornwall.
2004 VOITKA Warriors of Independence - Screenwriter & Co-Producer
Feature documentary about two brothers living on the run from the Red Army in Estonia. The film had a theatrical release in the Nordic countries and Estonia and was sold worldwide.
1999 The Real McCoy - Screenwriter & Producer
Cult feature documentary about the multiple personalities of rock star Andy McCoy. Shot in Finland and Mumbai, the film was second in the box office in Finland to Star Wars for 6 months.
1997 Boy Hero 001 - Screenwriter & Producer
1 hour documentary narrated by Daniel Craig about a Communist boy hero for YLE, ARTE, MDR, DR and SVT. Shot in Moscow and Siberia, the film won 6 major prizes, was featured in over 30 festivals and was distributed worldwide.
Writing
Beatrix has written the scripts for all her films and written short films, feature film treatments, voice-overs, original screenplays, documentary & multimedia scripts, created storyworlds, adapted cult books, historic action & dramatised real life stories for other Directors and Producers.
She is an experienced story consultant and leads creative writing workshops.
Workshops, Residencies, Exhibitions + Collaborations
2025 What We Do Now - The Stove Network
Leading the "Art of Storytelling" workshop at the Winter Gathering, Castle Douglas.
2025 Magician With Wood – Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Leading a storytelling workshop inspired by the themes in “Tim Stead: Magician With Wood” to create a modern myth about wood and trees.
2024 Into The Woods
Leading 2D and 3D workshops at the Forest of Ae and the Big Tree Society to explore creative approaches to wood and trees inspired by “Tim Stead: Magician With Wood”.
2017 Luminate/Cove Park/Artists Network
Artist’s residency.
2016 Story of the Small Oat, Nunton Steadings, Outer Hebrides
Solo exhibition - oil and watercolour paintings, prints, photographs, artefacts & film.
2013 Ars Bioarctica, Finnish Lapland
Artist’s/Writer's residency at Kilpisjarvi Biological Research Station.
2011-13 Art On the Map, Uist Artists Association, Outer Hebrides
Solo exhibitions - oil and watercolour paintings, prints, photographs & film.
2011 The Winter Exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Group exhibition – oil and watercolour paintings.
2010 Open Studios, Creative Skills, Cornwall
Group exhibition – oil and watercolour paintings, prints, photographs, film & green woodwork.
2001-10 Collaborative Artist, Milburn Wood
Using digital video, writing and poetry on multi-media environmental, heritage, community, interpretation and regeneration projects in Cornwall with green woodworker Colin Milburn. Awarded Best Stand in the Forestry Section by HRH Prince of Wales at Royal Cornwall Show 2010.
2009 “New Work”, Rock Institute, Cornwall
Group exhibition – watercolour and oil paintings.
2009 Collaborative Artist
BYO Disco & “Let’s Play Records workshops, residency and events with artist Bruce Davis at the Exchange Gallery, Penzance and the Polperro Festival.
2009 Cultural Producer: EROC Pilot Project
Leading 9 European artists on a residency in Poland on questions of European Rural Regions of Culture and curating the final exhibition at CSW Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun.
Advisory Roles
2025- We Are Upland
Board member of the visual art and craft development organisation.
2014-2025 Specialist Advisor – XpoNorth, Highland & Islands Enterprise
Mentoring, workshop delivery, chairing festival panels, Creative Industries consultation.
2022 ScreenSkills
Workshop delivery.
2001-2023 Celtic Media Festival
Festival Producer 2001, International Juror 2006, Scottish Juror 2023
1998-2023 Jury Member - BAFTA
2001-2003 Cornwall Film
Funding board member, mentor and masterclass delivery.
Agricultural
2018-2023 Chair, Township Common Grazings Committee
Leading the township through an infrastructure improvement programme..
2011-2023 Crofter, Isle of South Uist
Breeding native cattle and direct marketing their produce, managing the environmental and biodiversity schemes. Horse-logging in Langass Community Woodlands.
2001-2010 Farmer, Cornwall
Breeding native cattle, sheep and pigs on a Duchy of Cornwall farm and direct marketing their produce, managing the SSSI under a Natural England Wildlife Enhancement Scheme.